[mythtv-users] X2 5000 enough to play HD?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Aug 27, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 08/27/2008 02:05 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>
>>> Also you might want to enable 2 processors in your playback  
>>> profile so
>>> frontend will use one and X will use the other if you are playing  
>>> back
>>> something that takes more than half a core.
>>>
>> Where (what page) is the 2 processor setting?
>
> It's in the Playback Profile.  (
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Playback_profiles )  However, I'm
> pretty certain that enabling more than one core in the profile will  
> be a
> waste (I'm assuming your HDTV is MPEG-2) since multithreaded  
> decoding is
> not (yet) supported by the MPEG-2 decoders.
>
> Read the wiki page before editing any playback profile or playback
> profile group.  Your best bet is to create your own.

I remember having a problem with setting it to 1 CPU and it was  
resolved by setting it to 2 CPU's. Maybe it splits up the X and  
Mythfrontend processes?